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Entrepreneurs Put Capital to Work for Economic Growth
It doesn’t matter what country, society or region an entrepreneur operates within. They will put capital to work to help stimulate the economy. As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week the anchors at Gangplank decided to embark on a social experiment. [...]
You Can’t Do Collaboration Without Being a Collaborator
In various software development circles I hear the phrase “You can’t do Agile, you have to be Agile”. This makes sense to me so never thought much about it. However, when asked about Gangplank and describing it we choose say [...]
The Future, It’s About People..
We have been talking about concepts in software development for the last few years at Integrum getting back to humanity. That the separation of goals and values between developers, product owners and users is out of control. We have executed [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity
Tagged Community, Creativity, Gangplank, Integrum, motivation, theory
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Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.
I read “A case against ‘free trial coworking‘” by Alex Hillman from IndyHall and it reminded why I can’t relate to the coworking movement. I purposefully use the word collaborative workspace when talking about Gangplank because implying that there is [...]
Posted in Gangplank
Tagged chandler, Community, Gangplank, innovation, motivation, phoenix, theory
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The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona
Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness. It references a 1999 paper from the Morrison Institute The New Economy: A Guide for Arizona. It lists eight principles [...]
Posted in AZ, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, creatives, economic development, Education, excellence, Gangplank, innovation, new economy, planning, policy, politics, sun corridor
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Oblivious To The Things You Do
Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others. At AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys. [...]
Posted in Agile, Education, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal
Tagged Education, Gangplank, innovation, Integrum, Productivity
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Freedom In Being Focused
As mentioned on the Gangplank blog “What Exactly Is Gangplank?“, we recently went through the exercise of answering that question. It seems stupid. It seems simple. It may even seem worthless. The truth is that it was liberating. Carrying a [...]
Encouraging Institutional Innovation By Changing How We Educate
John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives has an excellent article on challenging mindsets from reverse innovation to innovation blowback. It reinforces our mindset in why we are passionate about how Gangplank is structured and why concepts brought out in Gangplank Jr [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Gangplank
Tagged challenge, economic development, economy, Education, Gangplank, innovation, manifesto, mindset, Productivity
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Regional Ruby Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
There was a call for conference planning for a Regional Ruby Conference on the Ruby AZ meeting list recently. It was at the request of fellow local Ruby company DevFu that I decided to attend. I showed up [...]
Startups and Mind Camps and Crowd Pitches. Oh My
It is clear to me that we are not in Kansas anymore. I expected today to be full of amazing as more days than not seem to be that way of late around Gangplank. The morning got going by kicking [...]
